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  2. From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.logic
  4. Subject: Re: Will a mathematician locked up in a little room be happy?
  5. Message-ID: <By6F3z.HME@cs.bham.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 23 Nov 92 15:59:58 GMT
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  8. Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
  9. Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
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  12.  
  13. I thought the follwoing joke was well known:
  14.  
  15.   What's the difference between a mathematician and a philosopher?
  16.   Well, to work a mathematician needs a chair, a desk, a paper and
  17.   some writing implements and a waste paper basket; in the case of
  18.   a philosopher you can throw away the waste paper basket.
  19.